DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION 
799 
Fishing, hunting, target shooting 
Solely as a sport. For trapping and hunting as an industry see 639.1; for fishing 
as an industry see 639.2—.6 
Fishing 
Freshwater fishing 
Angling : 
Net fishing Seining 
Other methods of fishing 
Shore fishing 
Sea fishing 
For special kinds of fish 
Subdivided like 507 
Hunting 
Shooting game 
Hunting in open country and in covers 
Hunting with retrievers, pointers 
Bird hunting 
Land birds 
Field and cover hunting 
Bay shooting Shore shooting Fenbirds 
Water fowl 
Special birds 
Subdivided like 598 
Hunting with hounds, falcons, etc. Jack hunting, drag 
hunting 
For general works on both dangerous and non langerous animals, also noa- 
dangerous animals alone. For dangerous animals alone see 700.26. For 
special animals, dangerous or nondangerous, see 799.27 
Hunting dangerous animals 
Generalities 
Methods 
Firearms, bolas, lasso, spear, boomerang, sling ete. 
Special animals 
May be subdivided for 799,271-.278 like 599.1-.8, adding (if needed) man 
hunting as 799.2789, and classing creatures not included under 599 in 
700.279 subdivided like 590, e. g. crocodile hunting 709.279814; or, if 
preferd, may be arranged alfabeticly by assigninz Cutter book numbers 
from name of animal 
Hunting with camera 
By country 
Divide like 030-999 
Shooting (otherwize than for game) 
For shooting game see 799.21 
Target practis Trap shooting 
With firearms: pistols, shotguns, rifles, carbines 
Archery: longbow, crossbow 
Other means of shooting 
Catapult, airgun 
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